Don’t forget everyone, the Auditions for BATS 2011 Panto – Peter Pan will be on the 6th-8th September.

We are performing an “Evening of One Act Plays” which will be held at Henlow Theatre at 7:45pm on the 23rd and 24th July 2010.
The plays includes some of those that were entered in the National Drama Festival which won a number of awards and nominations, including “Best Supporting Actor” and “Best Dramatic Moment”.
 
The plays are on [...]

The adult entry Between Mouthfuls’ by Alan Ackbourn was set in a restaurant and centred around the Waiter who was serving two couples at different tables, who worked together. As the Waiter flits between tables, you can hear the separate conversations between the different couples when he is there. As the evening progresses, we discover the [...]

We have been busy in December promoting our up and coming Pantomime and celebrating Christmas.
BATS entered a Christmas tree this year in the St Andrews Church Christmas Tree Festival, which was decorated in the theme of our pantomime Dick Whittington & His Cat on 4th December 2009, see picture below.
You may have also seen BATS supporting [...]

Colouring Competition!
Win Panto Tickets and a selection of children’s toys and goodies.
Your design will be used as our programme cover!
BATS presents this years pantomime
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs
We are performing at Stratton School on Fri 16th Jan at 7:30pm
And Saturday 17th Jan at 2pm and again at 7:30pm

If you would like to win 2 [...]

Hello all and welcome to the BATS website, firstly apologies for the website being a little behind the times of late – our web master has been off having a baby, (well his wife has, but you know what I mean), So we are having a go at updating it ourselves for now!
Anyway, we are [...]

BATS will shortly be putting on their production of ‘The Last Bread Pudding’, a one act comedy by Nick Warburton.  The show recently featured at the Welwyn Drama Festival as well as the Bedfordshire Drama Association One-Act Drama Festival, where actor Max Caldicott picked up an award for best supporting actor.
All performances will be at [...]

BATS will very soon be preparing to stage their next major production – “Return to the Forbidden Planet”. While we have all the necessary principal cast members for the show, we are in need of people who can help with the following:

Dancers
Singers
Chorus Members
Set Construction/Painting
Costumes
Props
General backstage/pre-production work

If anyone feels they can lend a hand, Sue [...]

It’s that time of year again when we at BATS start to think about festivals – and sure enough next weekend we’ll be presenting our (abridged) version of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors.
The cast under the direction of BATS veteran Michael Darvell have been rehearsing hard since January and are just putting the finishing touches to [...]